What do you find irritating about YouTubers?

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

Any variation on, "If you liked this video, please like and subscribe to encourage me to make more content."

I get wanting to have a captive audience before investing resources on making regular content, but the implication is still there that anyone neither liking nor subscribing somehow doesn't deserve to see/enjoy the author's content.

 

[AMERICA]

That they expect me to care about them in a "celebrity" sense. I don't care about celebrities in general, but I especially don't care about youtubers. Something about the air of "we're very important youtubers who should be taken super seriously!!!1" is really off-putting. You're literally just some guy/girl. Who cares.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Youtubers tiptoeing around "trigger words" like suicide or kill, bonus points if it also uses an annoying censor sound. I refuse to believe this is a good way to keep videos ad friendly since I've also seen it in true crime videos or videos about lolcows and other infamous people on the internet.

That's a real big one. A lot of true crime channels won't say things that were said nonstop on basic cable TV, and even network over the air like 'suicide' or 'assault'.

youtube lacks the ability to differentiate context for the words being used. unless youre one of those cable networks with a channel on youtube, good luck getting away with saying literally anything. content matter doesnt help either

 

[mlanguishi]

youtube lacks the ability to differentiate context for the words being used. unless youre one of those cable networks with a channel on youtube, good luck getting away with saying literally anything. content matter doesnt help either

It would be nice if they can upgrade the AI or at least have some kind of 'over 18' only check that would limit sponsors to those that don't mind the controversial topics. I prefer channels that are not monetized and rely only on Patreon/side sponsors. I mean there's a channel called Policeactivity and it gets amazing #'s of views and it's nothing but cops shooting people and sometimes only fuzzing out the gore.

But yeah, I can't really blame people for self censoring when it's their livelihood on the line. Just annoying.

ETA and lately even self censoring hasn't helped, lots of non-critkal/mutahar channels got struck for just discussing EDP.

 

[Tour of Italy]

I hate it when creators get suddenly self conscious about their work and start delisting their shit.

Either they just get depressed and want to purge everything (looking at you Composerily) or else their videos get popular with the “wrong kind of people” (looking at you Robobuddies)

Sometimes you get a hero who youtube-dl’d everything and goes for the reupload, but sometimes that reasonably pleasant video you watched 4-5 years ago that you want to see again is just gone forever.

 

[frozen_runner]

Clickbait thumbnails with superfluous red circles and arrows pointing to the only objects in view.

It would be nice if they can upgrade the AI

Are you out of your fucking mind?

 

[God of Nothing]

It would be nice if they can upgrade the AI or at least have some kind of 'over 18' only check that would limit sponsors to those that don't mind the controversial topics. I prefer channels that are not monetized and rely only on Patreon/side sponsors. I mean there's a channel called Policeactivity and it gets amazing #'s of views and it's nothing but cops shooting people and sometimes only fuzzing out the gore.

But yeah, I can't really blame people for self censoring when it's their livelihood on the line. Just annoying.

ETA and lately even self censoring hasn't helped, lots of non-critkal/mutahar channels got struck for just discussing EDP.

>Implying they'd go through that much effort to make things easier
>Implying they'd even risk test running it
>Implying it'd even work
come on, man

 

[mlanguishi]

>Implying they'd go through that much effort to make things easier
>Implying they'd even risk test running it
>Implying it'd even work
come on, man

Yeah, I have to admit it, my post was pretty bad. Just throwing darts.

 

[God of Nothing]

Yeah, I have to admit it, my post was pretty bad. Just throwing darts.

The only safe and true method for having free speech is by having free speech. Not this retarded censorship via withholding monetization. Everyone always cries about the children but no one ever takes the goddamn phone away.

 

[Psyduck]

Everything related to internet shit is so fucking phony now, every single nigger out there wants to become rich and famous off doing minimal work, and as such there’s rarely any videos on my feed that are just that. Everything has to be “content”, everything has to be overproduced with some lispy fame seeking faggot hogging the spotlight when you just wanted to watch a video about fat cats doing funny things

 

[GustavoDíazOrdaz]

When YouTubers advertise fucking useless products that i'll never use. It's like we've returned to the 1950's with these annoying on-show commercials.

 

[Clown College 2nd Year]

Don't know if this had been mentioned yet and I usually see it on tech review channels. I hate when some random videographer or photographer posts a clickbait video about the one reason they won't be buying or using a certain product. Said one reason usually turns out to be some nitpicky edge case that won't apply to 99.9999% of other users' use cases.

Which leads me to my next complaint which has been mentioned above. YouTubers taking themselves waaaayyy too seriously. No you're not a celebrity I'm not going to base my buying decisions on your opinions I don't care.
Im looking at you Peter McKinnon. No one actually gives a shit about your followers on social media. No I'm not going to buy your overpriced line of camera bags fuck right off with that shit.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

 

[Tom Went To The Mayor]

Trap music

To add on to this; I never understood why so many YouTubers have that distracting, headache-inducing garbage in the background and it always sounds the same(with the only differences being that it either has ear-splitting rapid-fire snares or a booming bass). Even some of the ones I watch will alternate between using good bgm and trap shit. At least use synthwave or something that's easy on the ears. Anything is better than generic-sounding mumble rap bgm.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Overuse of certain "modern internet" stock sound effects like "oh no no no...", "WOOOW", "bruh", Jontron "WHAT?!?", Smash Bros cheering and jeering/Homerun bat noise, and most of all they made me hate the fucking Metal Gear alert noise. This cancer vid sums most of it it up.

The fact that almost all of them are from this video means most creators probably just stole this exact vid tbh.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

Some more petty shit that irritates me:

• Youtube thumbnails that have a red border, because I can't tell or not if I've already watched it. CNN does this shit: every time I see a CNN video recommended to me, at first glance I keep thinking I watched it previously because the red border looks like the red line on the bottom of previously-watched videos.
• Channels that have extremely generic, bland names or poor branding, making it hard for me to find them via searches. Examples are Moon, Knight, Horses, or Shaun. I'll hear someone mention them in 3rd person, and then when I go to look them up I can't find them because their names are too vague. I recently discovered a fairly decent lost media channel, but I can't remember her name because her Youtube channel name was just her first name (like Kayla or Kara) and her profile picture was just a solid-colored circle with no logo or anything. She also didn't have a bio nor social media listed. Also a while back I found a large animation channel, and the name was just "Joe" -- not something like "Joe's Cartoons" or "Joe's Animation Channel" -- just the fucking word "Joe".
• Insanely long video essays with no coherent narrative, no summary in the description, and with a misleading thumbnail/description. Political channels do this a lot (especially Breadtube): I'll get suckered into watching some fatass sperg about capitalism for 45 minutes with nonsensical word salad, and no real arguements about why he came to his conclusion. Then the entire comments section is a bunch of fags and troons with pride flags saying the same stock replies of "Good work as usual, fuck capitalism!"
  • Insanely long video essays CAN be good when the topic is clear and to the point: a great example is Down the Rabbit Hole -- you click on his video about Wings, see a thumbnail with a fat guy, and right off the bat you know it's a video about the rise and fall of a morbidly obese lolcow. Even if you don't finish all 1.5 hours of it, you at least know within seconds what the video's about or where it's going.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

When YouTubers advertise fucking useless products that i'll never use. It's like we've returned to the 1950's with these annoying on-show commercials.

"Hey guys, don't you find it so hard, and tedious and impossibly time consuming to have food in your house and cook it? I do, so I totally use these $45 a meal ingredient packs from HelloFresh! Honest."
Lol, fuck off.

 

[Nick Obre]

Don't know if it's been mentioned (hell, maybe I did but forgot it) but one thing that gets me is Youtubers commenting about the algorithm in a kind of snide way as the reason for making the current video.

Like "So today we're back with X game lore because I tried to do Y game lore and the algorithm didn't quite pick it up, so I gotta do this I guess."

Or even if they're just talking about how something they did got unexpected algorithm attention, like "I made a video about the something-or-other iceberg and it did very well, so today we've got another iceberg!"

Niggers I don't care about your algorithmic concerns, the audience doesn't need transparency about that kind of thing, especially when it makes it apparent you're not being genuine about what you make.

 

[Grand Wizard Wakka]

People who have no fucking business making videos about speaking. Marble mouthed lispy retards. People who cant speak English but make videos that's entirely them attempting to speak in English on something. And text-to-speech: just dont even make a fucking video.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

When they spend like a minute straight rambling about how their opinion is just an opinion and other people might feel differently in order to placate the inevitable outrage squad. Shit or get off the pot ffs

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

The first Youtuber I can remember really noticing it with was Thequartering;

Youtubers tiptoeing around "trigger words" like suicide or kill, bonus points if it also uses an annoying censor sound. I refuse to believe this is a good way to keep videos ad friendly since I've also seen it in true crime videos or videos about lolcows and other infamous people on the internet.
Also hour long essay videos that achieve their length through filler unrelated to the main subject. Quinton Reviews is a good example of this.

Oh god, it boils my fucking blood when TheQuartering censors his words in the most retarded ways imaginable, because the fat fuck talks so slow and pauses before saying it. For example, he says "pew-pew" instead of "gun" (how fucking gay), "stabby-thing" instead of "knife", "spicy" instead of "sexual/pornographic". So he'll do a clickbait video about a teacher getting fired for starting an OnlyFans, and his video will describe it like, "Oh, wow. Um, so...a teacher...um....wow, let's just say she got fired...FIRED...for sharing some, wow, I can't even say it. Let's just say...spicy. Uhh, SPICY content on that you-know-what website."

Jeremy is the right wing equivalent of an SJW -- in both his appearance and political correct faggotry. Look, I understand videos become demonetized for shooting guns, but Jesus Christ just fucking say "gun" instead of "pew-pew": that's such a gay soyboy thing to do.

And yeah, true crime channels censoring words like suicide, murder, rape, abuse, assault, etc.; Turkey Tom does this in his long videos now, like when talking about internet lore involving abuse from influencers. Whenever I hear one of his videos, I keep thinking my internet connection is fucked up, but lo and behold he just keeps censoring words that aren't even cuss words. Abuse? Assault? Give me a fucking break, this ain't Sesame Street.